Volume 40, Number 9 · May 13, 1993
Twenty-first Century Blues
By Alan Ryan
Preparing for the Twenty-first Century
by Paul Kennedy
Random House, 428 pp., $25.00
The old cliché defines history as 'philosophy teaching by examples.' A historian studying the examples provided by the past few years might come to very desperate conclusions about what philosophy has been telling us. Euphoria at the end of the cold war has given place to alarm at the horrors unleashed by ethnic rivalries in the Balkans and Armenia, by Hindu fanaticism in India, and Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. Gloom at the depressed economic condition of the US, Germany, Japan, and most of Europe is deepened by the knowledge that when the depressed economies revive, their destructive impact on the environment will pick up too.
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